In the economic paradigm of the twenty-first century, the increasing importance of innovation for SMEs and their global expansion motivates research on determinants of innovative entrepreneurship. While the literature suggests that R&D intensity improves innovative entrepreneurship, few studies explore why countries are different in directing R&D projects. Drawing on insights from the resource-based view and information economics perspective, this paper examines the effect of the digital readiness of an economy, as an emerging field in institutional literature, on channeling national R&D resources to entrepreneurs and SMEs. As R&D is an important source of innovativeness for SMEs, effective access to R&D resources enables new ventures to better compete in this challenging era of globalization and successfully expand across borders. We argue that having a more digitally advanced economy positively influences the transfer of national R&D to entrepreneurs and SMEs. We also argue that government entrepreneurship programs and lack of internal market dynamics highlight the positive role of digital readiness. Using a sample of more than 400 international observations across 7 years (2010–2016), we find strong support for our arguments. We empirically test the rarely acknowledged link between home country institutions and R&D transfer and shed light on country-level determinants of innovative entrepreneurship as a key source of competitive advantage in global markets. This study contributes to international entrepreneurship literature and augments our knowledge of comparative research on R&D transfer for a global investigation of entrepreneurship development.

在二十一世纪的经济范式中，创新对中小型企业及其全球扩张的重要性日益提高，促使人们对创新型企业家的决定因素进行研究。虽然文献表明研发强度可以提高创新型企业家的能力，但很少有研究探索为什么国家在指导研发项目方面会有所不同。本文从基于资源的观点和信息经济学的观点出发，探讨了经济的数字化准备作为机构文献中的新兴领域，对将国家研发资源引导给企业家和中小型企业的影响。由于研发是中小企业创新的重要来源，因此有效获得研发机会 D资源使新企业能够在这个充满挑战的全球化时代更好地竞争，并成功地跨越国界。我们认为，拥有更先进的数字经济对从国家研发到企业家和中小企业的转移产生积极影响。我们还认为，政府创业计划和缺乏内部市场动态凸显了数字化准备的积极作用。我们使用了过去7年（2010-2016年）的400多个国际观察样本，我们为我们的论点提供了有力支持。我们通过经验检验了本国机构与R＆D转移之间鲜为人知的联系，并阐明了国家一级决定创新企业家精神的决定因素，这些决定因素是全球市场竞争优势的关键来源。